# flo
## French
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /flo/
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Noun

flo m (plural flos, feminine floune)
* (Quebec) boy
** 2002, Jean-François Pauzé (lyrics and music), “Mon chum Rémi”, in Break Syndical:Mais rent’ donc à maison / T’as un flo qui t’adore / Ça c’t’une vraie bonne raison / pour pas passer d’l’aut’ bord(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *flāō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”). Cognate with English blow and more distantly with Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”) (< *bʰel-).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /floː/, [fɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /flo/, [flɔː]

### Verb

flō (present infinitive flāre, perfect active flāvī, supine flātum); first conjugation
* to breathe, blow

#### Derived terms

* afflō
* ciniflō
* cōnflō
* efflō
* flābilis
* flābrum
* flāmen
* *flātor
* flātus
* īnflō
* perflō
* sufflō

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “flō, flāre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 226-7

### Further reading

* “flo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “flo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* flo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the east winds are blowing: venti ab ortu solis flant

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* fla, fleo, vlo

### Etymology

From Old English flā, from flān reanalysed as a plural, from Proto-West Germanic *flain, from Proto-Germanic *flainaz. Compare flon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /flɔː/
* Rhymes: -ɔː

### Noun

flo (plural flon or floon)
* An arrow, especially one used with a long bow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
* (figurative) Anything felt to have a (metaphorically) piercing effect.

#### Descendants

* English: flo

#### References

* “flō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

## Norwegian Bokmål

| flo | fjære |

### Etymology

From Old Norse flóð.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fluː/, [fluʷː]
* Homophone: flod

### Noun

flo f or m (definite singular floa or floen, indefinite plural floer, definite plural floene)
* high tide

#### Synonyms

* høyvann, høgvatn (Nynorsk also), høgvann, høyvatn

#### Antonyms

* fjære (Nynorsk also), fjøre (Nynorsk also)
* lavvann, lågvatn (Nynorsk also), lågvann, lavvatn
* ebbe (Nynorsk also)

#### Derived terms

* flo og fjære (“ebb and flow”)
* springflo
* stormflo

### See also

* flod (Nynorsk)
* tidevann (“tide”)

### References

* “flo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fluː/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse fló (“surface, layer”).

#### Noun

flo f (plural floa)
* a horizontal layer

##### Inflection

Historical inflection of flo
indefinite singular
definite singular
indefinite plural
definite plural
Aasen$^1$
ei Flo
Floi
Flør
Flørna
1901
ei flo
floi
flør
flørne
1917
floa, floi
1938
floa [floi]
floer
floene
1983
floer, flør
floene, flør
2012 (current)
ei flo
floa
floer, flør
floene, flørne
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. $^1$Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. :

##### Descendants

* → English: floe

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse flóð f or n. Akin to English flood. Doublet of flod.

#### Noun

flo f (plural floa)
* a rain shower

##### Inflection

Historical inflection of flo
indefinite singular
definite singular
indefinite plural
definite plural
1917
ei flo
floa, floi
floer
floene
1938
floa [floi]
2012 (current)
ei flo
floa
floer, flør
floene, flørne
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. :

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

flo
* (non-standard since 1938) past tense of flå

### References

* “flo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* fol

## Romansch
### Noun

flo m (plural flos)
* (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) Alternative form of flad (“breath (of air)”)

#### Derived terms

* (Sutsilvan) trer flo
* (Surmiran) trer igl flo

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From French fluor, from Latin fluor.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [flɔ˧˧], [fəː˨˩ lɔ˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [flɔ˧˧], [fəː˦˩ lɔ˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [flɔ˧˧], [fəː˨˩ lɔ˧˧]
* Phonetic spelling: phlo, phờ lo

### Noun

flo
* fluorine